We do not dare say we’ve found that specific smartphone app that you’ve been looking for. Instead, we’d like to introduce you to a bunch of apps that you’ve probably never heard of that will definitely help you think outside the box. Whether you want to cartoonize your pictures or turn them into a time-lapse, you’ll find something that will suit your needs.

Your Smartphone Photography Revolution

1. Geló

Available on: iOSPrice: Free

Does playing with color gels, various geometric shapes, and gradients sound like your idea of expressing yourself through photography? Geló’s 32-color palette will help you customize your photos and enhance their impact.

2. Paper Camera

Available on: iOS, AndroidPrice: From $2.49

Paper Camera allows you to turn your pictures into a painting, cartoon, paper sketch, or comic book. Some of the effects available on the app are halftone, noir, and neon. Let your imagination run wild and let others see your world through a new lens.

Paper Camera is perfect for those with a passion for art, comics, and cartoon effects.

3. Clone Camera Pro

Available on: iOS, AndroidPrice: $1.99

Take any single object on your photo, clone it, and add it to the original picture for a ghost-image effect with Clone Camera Pro. You can load up to six photos from your gallery and the app will combine them into one, placing your object in different positions in the final picture.

The app also offers a self-timer, several filters, and a tutorial to help you learn how to create the ghost-image effect. You can instantly share your results.

5. Photo Editor by Aviary

Available on: iOS, AndroidPrice: Free

Photo Editor is yet another option for those ready to start editing like a pro. Enhance and stylize your smartphone photos using filters, overlays, vignettes, a focus tool, a sharpening tool, a blemish removal tool, and even a teeth-whitening tool. You can also crop, rotate, straighten, contrast, and brighten your pictures using this app.

In addition, you can draw your own photo captions and doodle on your photos. You can sync your images to Adobe Creative Cloud and access tools and filters from any device you’re using. Share your edited pictures on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

6. Ampergram

Available on: iOS, AndroidPrice: $0.99

Overlay your Instagram pictures with type using Ampergram. You can use your own photos or one of the Ampergram community’s collection.

To contribute to that collection, tag photos of letters in Instagram using #ampergram, as well as hashtags with just letters or numbers (e.g. #A). Learn about Instagram typography by cropping in on a single letter you want to use.

7. Lifecake

Available on: iOS, AndroidPrice: Free

Lifecake will help you document and share your child’s progress by creating a timeline of photos and slideshows. To add to the timeline you can pull images from Dropbox, Facebook, Picasa, and Instagram. Then you can organize the timeline a number of ways so you can see your child at any age and compare their growth stages from birth to present day.

You can make your child’s timeline available for all family members to view on their smartphones or computers. With Lifecake’s premium account you can export the images to a hardcover book.

8. Rakuga Cute

Available on: iOS, AndroidPrice: Free

Probably the cutest app on this list, Rakuga Cute is a photo decoration app designed in Asia. The app includes tools for rolling stamps, framing, text with a variety of pen types, pastels, neons patterns, and shading. It also has a “beauty mode.” So if you enjoy “beautifying” your pictures using filters, collages, and mosaics, this app has plenty to offer you.

9. LINE Camera

Available on: iOS, AndroidPrice: Free

Another popular decoration app on our list is LINE Camera. The app offers more than 100 different kinds of frames and rich fonts, plus thousands of stamps. You can create your own stamps using your own photos and text with the app’s customizable filters. Similar to Rakuga Cute, LINE Camera also comes with a number of “beautifying” tools.

With an updated version of the app, you can enjoy video recording with fun animal stickers as overlays.

12. Hyperlapse

Available on: iOS, AndroidPrice: Free

Concluding our list is another photo-editing app from Instagram: Hyperlapse. Create beautiful and smooth time-lapse videos4 Ways To Take Time-Lapse Videos4 Ways To Take Time-Lapse VideosTime-lapse videos are some of my favorite videos to watch. They’re just so fascinating, whether the video shows the passage of time in a desert or the workflow of a sketch artist. There’s just something...Read More using this app’s automatic stabilization. You can then enhance them with cinematic effects.

Speed it up by 12x to add a little extra to your time-lapse video. The results are shareable on both Facebook and Instagram.

Anya Zhukova is a Social Media, and Entertainment writer for MakeUseOf. Originally from Russia, she is currently a full-time Remote Worker and Digital Nomad ( #buzzwords). With a background in Journalism, Language Studies, and Technical Translation, Anya couldn't imagine her life and work without using modern technology on a daily…